Summer of '42 poster
Director Robert Mulligan
Writer Herman Raucher

Summer of '42

Tagline: In everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42"

Release Date: 1971-04-19

Duration: 103 minutes

Synopsis

Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with the married Dorothy, whose husband is an army pilot recently sent to the battlefront of World War II.

Casting

  • Jennifer O'Neill
    Dorothy
  • Katherine Allentuck
    Aggie
  • Christopher Norris
    Miriam
  • Lou Frizzell
    Druggist
  • Gary Grimes
    Hermie
  • Maureen Stapleton
    Hermie's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
  • Jerry Houser
    Oscy
  • Walter Scott
    Dorothy's Husband (uncredited)
  • Oliver Conant
    Benjie
  • Robert Mulligan
    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)